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Review on BOOKFINDS: Rita Schiano’s Painting the Invisible Man explores truth through the veil of fiction and highlights these truths with honesty and emotional intensity. A beautiful poetic read! (read full review) http://bookfinds.com/blog/?p=1101

April 2008

NEW DURHAM, NH -- BY BRENDAN BERUBE Staff Writer -- For Rita Schiano,the phrase "truth is stranger than fiction" is more than just an old saying ... it is quite literally the story of her life. In Schiano's latest novel, Painting the Invisible Man, a keying error made on a computer leads the main character hitting the wrong key. (read more...The Baysider)

NEW DURHAM, NH -- Fox Tale Books is thrilled to announce that author Rita Schiano will be at the bookstore on Friday, April 4, at 6:30 p.m. to read and discuss her terrific new book, Painting the Invisible Man. Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served. (read more...Rochester Times)

March 2008

WORCESTER, MA--During her childhood, Rita Schiano's parents were often separated. She would see her father when he stopped by the schoolyard at lunchtime or drove her home at the end of the day. Schiano traveled with her father to Las Vegas on several occasions; he always registered at the hotel under an alias.... (read more... Worcester Telegram & Gazette Speaking Volumes)

February 2008

STURBRIDGE, MA -- The Woman in Business Inc. group will host local author Rita Schiano during its March 12 meeting,to be held at 6:45 a.m.at the Oliver Wight Tavern at Old Sturbridge Village...(read more...)

December 2007

October 2007

Midwest Book ReviewPainting the Invisible Man is a historical fiction novel about an ordinary writer drawn into conducting research on the world of her father, a man murdered in a gangland-style hit more than two decades ago. The deeper she immerses herself in the painful and unresolved past, the more obsessed she becomes with uncovering the truth about her father, whom she thinks of as "The Invisible Man." Written with razor-sharp wit,Painting the Invisible Man is an absorbing tale that smoothly blends the quest for truth with the complexities of a self-portrait.

J. Kaye's Book Blog

Have you ever read a book that left you so full of emotion, you found it hard to discuss its contents? It's not often a book renders me searching for words that adequately express my feelings, but Painting the Invisible Man has done just that.

Most novels I'd describe as easy-breezy reads. I enjoy them, love to discuss them, and then want to move on. But Rita Schiano's book touched me in a place I rarely disclose to the public. The main character, Anna Matteo, hits a point in her life where she must come face to face with her past. Twenty years earlier, her father was murdered and she ran away and closed off a part of herself. Now, Anna stumbles across articles related to her father and she's ready to go back and understand what happened the day her father was murdered. -- Reviewed by J. Kaye Oldner

Shelfari Author Review
Anna Matteo pays the bills by writing press releases, newsletters, and brochures. Even though she has one published novel under her belt, she no longer considers herself a "real writer". She's been working on the same novel for the past seven years, but has yet to even give it a title despite constant goading from her muse, Amy Tan.

STURBRIDGE, MA -- Writer Rita Schiano talks about coming to Sturbridge and finding the truth about earlier events in her life. During her senior year in college, her father was murdered, the victim of a mob hit. She has written a fascinating book about truth, coincidence and forgiveness. (Read full story...)www.sturbridgetimes.com/images/times08.pdf

July 2007

BOSTON -- In 2001, Sturbridge, Mass.-based author Rita Schiano was researching the archives of the "Syracuse Post-Standard" for a client. She accidentally charged 10 articles instead of the one she needed to her credit card. After retrieving her client's news article, and with nine more for which she'd already paid, Schiano, a native of Syracuse, New York, began typing in names of people she knew, including her father. (Read full story...)http://www.innewsweekly.com/innews/print.php?article_code=4219

SOUTHBRIDGE, MA -- Rita Schiano, like much of the country, watched the series finale of The Sopranos on HBO last night. But unlike most of the country, Schiano probably had a better idea of what was going to happen.

That's because she's lived it.

Late last month, Schiano, a Sturbridge resident and writer, saw her memories put to paper in the fictional novel, Painting the Invisible Man. (Read full story...) SouthbridgeEvening News6/11/07.pdf

In 2001, while researching the online archives of her hometown newspaper for a client, freelance writer Rita Schiano made a keying error -- a simple mistake that led her to a path she'd been avoiding most of her life; on a journey inside the world of her father, killed gangland-style more than two decades ago.

Schiano turned that difficult journey into an engrossing novel. Painting The Invisible Man is a poignant, often hilarious coming of age story that explores the complex dynamics of growing up in an Italian family on the fringes of the Mafia.

"Painting The Invisible Man is a courageous book by a courageous writer." -- Anne D LeClaire, author of Listening Below The Noise, Entering Normal, and The Lavender Hour